Goalkeepers In Playmaking And Attack

Goalkeepers are not required to stay in the penalty area. They may get involved in play anywhere on the pitch, and it is common for them to act as an additional defender during certain passages of the game. Colombia's René Higuita, Mexico's Jorge Campos and Liverpool's Bruce Grobbelaar were notable for their foot skills and their constant play outside the penalty area. Some goalkeepers have even scored goals; a number of goalkeepers have scored by rushing up to the opposite end of the pitch in order to create an advantage in numbers. This rush – nicknamed a "goalie run" – is risky, and is normally only done late in the game, in order to score a last-minute goal if the goalkeeper's team is losing (and only then, in situations where goal difference is unimportant). The action very rarely succeeds, although players like Michelangelo Rampulla, Peter Schmeichel, Oswaldo Sánchez, Mart Poom, Marco Amelia, Andrés Palop, Brad Friedel, Massimo Taibi, Jimmy Glass, Paul Robinson and Mark Crossley have been able to score in these situations. And being Palop's case the most notable, because the goal he scored sent the match to an extra time where his team, Sevilla, won, and thanks to this, succeeded on winning the UEFA Cup 2007. In the final of the 2003 CAF African Champions League El Ahly(Egypt)goalkeeper Essam El Hadary scored a goal by driving a free kick from near his penalty box into the top bar of opponents Kaiser Cheifs goal, the ball then hit the back of the Kaiser Cheifs goalie then into the net. In some even rarer situations, goalkeepers have even scored goals unintentionally, when a ball punted downfield has caught the opposing goalkeeper out of position. Paul Robinson and Pat Jennings have both scored under such circumstances, co-incidentally both doing so for Spurs. Vitoria de Guimaraes' Palatsi also scored in that situation against Moreirense on a game for the Portuguese Liga. Serbian goalkeeper Dragan Pantelić and, more recently, Colombian "Neco" Martínez have also scored goals the same way.Other goalkeepers have become notable at taking set pieces; for example, José Luis Chilavert who is the only goalkeeper to score a hat trick doing so through penalty kicks. He also was a free kick-expert. Rogério Ceni has scored the most amount goals for a goalkeeper, having scored 78 times through free kicks and penalty kicks.